SOUTH BEND -- The peregrine falcon chick that went missing last week downtown has been returned to its nesting box on County-City Building, according to a volunteer who tracks the birds.

Carol Riewe, a local naturalist and raptor rehabilitator, said the chick was found Monday morning next to the AT&T building at Main and Wayne streets. She said someone saw the bird on the sidewalk and reported it to police.

It had been missing since Thursday.

Riewe said volunteers painted an orange dot on top of one of the bird's wings and underneath its other wing, so it can be identified easily if it goes missing again.

Two peregrine chicks hatched in mid-May atop the 14-story County City Building.